Saturday, June 21, 2008

33rd overall, St. Louis took Basic McRae's son Philip, a big centreman from the London Knights

49th overall, Calgary took Mitch Wahl, a scoring centre from Long Beach, California, who played on the Memorial Cup champion Spokane Chiefs this year

49th overall, Phoenix took the other Staal brother, Jared, who has the size that runs in the family but is seen as more of a project player than Eric, Marc and Jordan

66th overall, the Islanders took Jonathan Toews brother, David, who has put up some pretty good numbers at Shattuck St. Mary's in Minnesota and was certainly worth a flyer

97th overall, Boston took Jamie Arniel, the newphew of former NHLer and current Manitoba Moose coach Scott Arniel

105th overall, Carolina took Michal Jordan, whose parents had a sense of humour

131st overall, Vancouver took Prab Rai, an East Indian centre from Surrey, B.C., who has put up great point totals with Seattle in the WHL

148th overall, the Islanders took Matt Martin, whose jersey junior teammate Steven Stamkos was carrying around the arena all day given he wasn't in attendance to pick it up

153rd overall, Los Angeles took Canadian junior hockey's MVP Justin Azevedo, who while 20 years old, is still quite a talent, even if he is 5 foot 7. Not bad for a sixth-round pick, however, as he had 43 goals and 124 points this season

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A sportswriter at The Globe and Mail, James covers the NHL and the game of hockey. He is a member of the Professional Hockey Writers' Association, a radio and TV analyst with TSN and was the NHL network manager at SB Nation from 2008 to 2010. A graduate of Thompson Rivers and Ryerson universities, James grew up in Kamloops, B.C. — one of Canada's great hockey cities — and was a season ticket holder in the Blazers' glory years.

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